Vestigial Organs: Common Descent by Charles
Darwing
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Vestigial Organs: Common Descent by Charles Darwing
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“Vestigial Organ” is a term used to describe organs or functions that due to the course of evolution no longer
have a use. The idea of useless organs had been around long before Charles Darwin, but his idea for why they
were there was the one that stuck. In his book “The Descent of Man” Darwin named a few organs that were
considered absolutely useless or had very little service such as wisdom teeth, the appendix, the spleen, and the
hind leg bones in whales. While functions of some of these parts such as the appendix and spleen have been
discovered, Evolutionists still believe that vestigial are great evidence for the evolution. In complete contrast,
Creationists know that they are evidence for a Creator. They believe that the organs are not vestigial, and indeed
have a use.
Why do meaningless organs point to evolution? In his book “Common Descent” Darwin considered the possibility
of all life descending from one organism. If that were true, then as that organism evolved into other organisms,
some parts would become unnecessary as the process went on. Some parts would be left over from the change.
When a reptile changed into a bird for example, the fully evolved bird might have a few left over parts from the
reptile that it doesn’t need.
An organ dubbed vestigial by most are the third molars or as they are more commonly called, wisdom teeth. It
would seem that their only purpose is to support dentists financially. Coming in around the age of seventeentwenty five, the wisdom teeth are known for emerging incorrectly, at an odd angle or unexpected location. They
crowd the other teeth and can sometimes corrupt adjacent teeth. So why are they in the mouth? According to
evolutionists one hundred million years ago, human ancesto...